Jews in the Notarial Culture: Latinate Wills in Mediterranean Spain, 1250-1350 - Rilegato

Burns, Robert I.

9780520203938: Jews in the Notarial Culture: Latinate Wills in Mediterranean Spain, 1250-1350

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ISBN 10: 0520203933 ISBN 13: 9780520203938

Casa editrice: Univ of California Pr, 1996

In the rapidly transforming world of thirteenth-century Mediterranean Spain, the all-purpose scribe and contract lawyer known as the notary became a familiar figure. Most legal transactions of the Roman Law Renaissance were framed in this functionary's notoriously hasty shorthand. Notarial archives, then, offer a remarkable window on the daily life of this pluri-ethnic society. Robert I. Burns brings together the testimony of a multitude of documents, and transcribes in full nearly fifty will-related charters prepared by notaries, to give a never-before-seen view of Jewish society in that place and time.

Wills can display the religious conscience, ethical institutions, social mobility, and property dynamics of whole groups or regions. Even a single testament allows a glimpse into the testator's family and into the life and times of the living person. Burns devotes special attention to women in wills and to women's wills, extracting rich information on medieval women and gender relationships.

While learning much about the role of kings and courts and the dynamics of Christian-Jewish relations, the reader also gains rare insights into a unique Jewish community.

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L'autore:

Robert I. Burns, S.J., is a senior Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles, and author of nine books on medieval Mediterranean Spain.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

"Fascinating and illuminating, informed by outstanding scholarly analysis. . . . With his deft touch, Burns opens a most unusual window on the realities of medieval Iberian Jewish life."Robert Chazan, author ofEuropean Jewry and the First Crusade

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